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The Battle for Caen from June to August 1944 was a battle between Allied (primarily British and Canadian troops) and German forces during the Battle of Normandy. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle in Berlin was a part of the Battle of Berlin. While the Battle of Berlin encompassed the attack by three Soviet Army Groups to capture not only Berlin but the territory of Germany still under German control, the Battle in Berlin dealt with the ever tightening ring around the German capital. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Aachen was a battle in Aachen, Germany, which occurred between 2–21 October 1944.
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The Battle of Ancona was a battle involving forces from Poland serving as part of the British Army and German forces that took place between 16 June–18 July 1944 during the Italian campaign in World War II. The battle was the result of an Allied plan to capture the city of Ancona in Italy in order to gain possession of a seaport closer to the fighting so that they could shorten their lines of communication.  (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Arnhem was a famous Second World War military engagement fought in and around the Dutch towns of Arnhem, Oosterbeek, Wolfheze, Driel and the surrounding countryside from the 17–26 September 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Battle of Auvere was a battle in Estonia, stating on July 20, 1944 and ending on July 25. The battle was a part of the World War II campaign in Narva. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Bautzen (April 1945) fought on the extreme southern flank of the Spremberg–Torgau Offensive saw days of pitched street fighting between forces of the 2nd Polish Army, the Red Army's 52nd Army and remnants of the German 4th Panzer and 17th Armies, and was the last successful German armoured counteroffensive of the Second World War. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Breslau, also known as the Siege of Breslau, was a three month long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wroc?aw, Poland), lasting to the end of World War II in Europe. From 13 February to 6 May 1945, German troops in Breslau were besieged by the Soviet forces which encircled the city as part of the Lower Silesian Offensive Operation. The German garrison's surrender on 6 May was followed the next day by the surrender of all German forces. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on June 6, 1944. American troops isolated and then captured the fortified port, considered vital to the campaign in Western Europe, in a hard-fought campaign of three weeks. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Debrecen, called by the Red Army the Debrecen Offensive Operation, (6 October - 28 October 1944) was conducted by the 2nd Ukrainian Front on the Eastern Front of World War II. It was opposed by Army Group South Ukraine's General Maximilian Fretter-Pico's 6th Army (II formation) and allied Hungarian VII Army Corps units which were forced to retreat some 160 kilometers, while opposing Marshal Rodion Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian Front which had Debrecen, Hungary as its strategic objective. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Drava operation was a defensive operation of the Bulgarian First Army during Bulgaria's participation in World War II against German Wehrmacht forces, who were trying to capture the north bank of the Drava river as part of Operation Frühlingserwachen. The Drava operation lasted from 6 to 21 March 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Elsenborn Ridge is a ridge line east of the town of Elsenborn, Belgium in the Ardennes forest that is notable for its role in the Battle of the Bulge. Members of the inexperienced American 99th and the veterans of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions defended against the German Army's spearhead forces, preventing them from reaching the road network west of the Elsenborn Ridge and the Meuse River. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Gemmano was fought between the German and Allied forces in World War II. It was part of the Allies' Operation Olive, the offensive in August 1944 on the Gothic Line, the German line of defence in the Apennines in northern Italy. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Groningen took place during the final month of the Second World War, from April 13 to April 16, 1945, in the city of Groningen between a mixture of German soldiers, Dutch and Belgian SS troops numbering 7,000 and the entire 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, though the whole division was never in combat at any given time. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Halbe lasted from April 24 to May 1, 1945 was a battle in which the German Ninth Army, under the command of Colonel General Theodor Busse was destroyed as a fighting force by the Red Army during the Battle for Berlin. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Hürtgen Forest is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought in its history. The battles took place between September 19, 1944, and February 10, 1945, over barely 50 square miles (129 km²), east of the Belgian–German border. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Ilomantsi was a part of the Continuation War (1941–1944). It was fought from July 26 to August 13, 1944, between Finland and the Soviet Union. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Kolberg or Battle of Ko?obrzeg (also, battle for Festung Kolberg) was the taking of the city of Kolberg (now Ko?obrzeg, Poland) in Pomerania by the Soviet Army and its Polish allies from Nazi German forces during the World War II East Pomeranian Offensive. Between March 4 and March 18, 1945, there was major urban fighting of the Soviet and Polish forces against the German army for the control over the city. The Germans succeeded in evacuating much of their military personnel and refugees from the city via sea before it was taken by the Poles on March 18. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Königsberg (also known as the Königsberg Offensive), was one of the last operations of the East Prussian Offensive during World War II. In four days of violent urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia).  (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Lanzareth ridge was part of the broader Battle of the Bulge. On the first day, the Germans attacked a ridge four miles from the town of Lanzareth, Belgium. The Germans launched a full-out attack with artillery support against American Infantry dug in along the ridge. Armour was also used to break through the defense, which had little in the way of AT guns or other heavy equipment. The end result was a wholesale German victory that brought early optimism. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The battle of Le Mesnil-Patry was the last major combat operation conducted by Canadian land forces in Normandy during the month of June 1944. The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, supported by the 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) attempted to take the town of Le Mesnil-Patry in Normandy as part of a southwards move towards high ground as part of the overall strategic goal of taking the city of Caen. The battle resulted in a German victory. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Memel or the Siege of Memel took place when the Soviets launched their Memel Offensive Operation in late 1944. The offensive led to a three-month blockade of German forces in a small bridgehead in the town and its port. The bridgehead was finally crushed as part of a subsequent offensive, the East Prussian Offensive of early 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Nancy in September 1944 was a ten-day battle on the Western Front of World War II in which the U.S. Third Army defeated German forces defending the approaches to Nancy and crossings over the Moselle River to the north and south of the city. The battle resulted in U.S. forces fighting their way across the Moselle and liberating Nancy. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Narva was a military campaign between the German army detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought for the strategically important Narva Isthmus in 2 February – 10 August 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Narva Bridgehead (2 February – 26 July 1944) was the campaign that stalled the Soviet Estonian Operation in the surroundings of the town of Narva for five and a half months. It was the first phase of the Battle of Narva campaign fought at the Eastern Front during World War II.
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The Battle of Nietjärvi (July 15 to July 17, 1944) was part of the Continuation War (1941–1944) — between Finland and the Soviet Union, which occurred during the World War II. The battle ended in a decisive Finnish victory, which ultimately helped to ensure Finland's continuous independence. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Overloon was a Second World War battle between Allied forces and the German army which took place in and around the village of Overloon in the south-east of the Netherlands between September 30th and October 18th, 1944. The battle, which resulted in an Allied victory, ensued after the Allies launched Operation Aintree. The Allies went on to liberate the town of Venray. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Podu Iloaiei was part of the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive of World War II fought between the Germans and the Soviets. The battle was a reaction to the Soviet defeat suffered at the First Battle of Târgu Frumos. In the end of the battle the Germans managed to drove the Soviets back to the positions held before the battle. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Pozna? during World War II in 1945 was a massive assault by the Soviet Union's Red Army that had as its objective the elimination of the German garrison in the fortification city of Pozna?, occupied Poland. The defeat of the German garrison required almost an entire month of painstaking reduction of fortified positions, intense urban combat, and a final assault on the city's citadel by the Red Army, complete with medieval touches. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Radzymin was one of a series of engagements between the Red Army's 1st Byelorussian Front and the Wehrmacht Heer's XXXIXth Panzer Corps that occurred as part of the Lublin-Brest Offensive between August 1 and August 10, 1944 at the conclusion of the Belorussian strategic offensive operation near the town of Radzymin in the vicinity of Warsaw, part of which entailed a large tank battle at Wo?omin. It was the largest tank battle on the territories of Poland during WWII. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Rimini is a name used to describe Operation Olive, the main Allied offensive on the Gothic Line in August and September 1944. It has been described as the biggest battle of materials ever fought in Italy. Over 1,200,000 men participated in the battle, which was a victory for the Allies although they did not achieve the hoped for decisive breakthrough. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Studzianki, was a tactical engagement between the elements of the elements of the Red Army's 2nd Tank Army employed as the Cavalry mechanized group of the 1st Belorussian Front and elements of the German 9th Army of Army Group North Ukraine defending south of Warsaw. The battle was part of the Soviet Lublin-Brest Offensive Operation. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Tali-Ihantala (June 25 to July 9, 1944) was part of the Continuation War (1941-1944) that occurred during World War II. The battle was fought by Finland, supported by forces of Germany against the Soviet Union and is to date the largest battle in history of the Nordic countries. The battle ended in a decisive Finnish victory. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Tannenberg Line was a campaign between the German the army detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought for the strategically important Narva Isthmus from 25 July to 10 August 1944. The campaign was fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. The strategic aim of the Soviet Estonian Operation was to reoccupy Estonia as a favourable basis for invasions of Finland and East-Prussia. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Verrières Ridge was a series of engagements fought as part of the Battle of Normandy, in western France, during the Second World War. The main combatants were two Canadian infantry divisions, with additional support from the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, against elements of three German SS Panzer divisions. The battle was part of the British and Canadian attempts to break out of Caen, being part of both Operation Atlantic and Operation Spring. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Villers-Bocage was a Second World War battle fought on 13 June 1944 during the Battle of Normandy. British armoured forces planned to seize the town as part of Operation Perch, an operation that intended to encircle and seize the German occupied city of Caen, which was a D-Day objective during invasion of northwest Europe. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of Vuosalmi  — the main bulk of it — lasted from July 4 to July 11, 1944. It was fought during the Continuation War (1941–1944), a part of World War II, between Finland and the Soviet Union. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of the Bay of Vyborg (Finnish: Viipurinlahden taistelu) was a battle in the Finnish-Soviet Continuation War (1941-1944). The Battle took place when the Soviet 59th Army attacked across the islands of the Bay of Vyborg from July 4, 1944, on, in an attempt to knock the Finns outof the war. The Soviet attack to the Finnish mainland was thrown back to the sea by the German 122nd Division of the V AK on July 10, 1944. Their superior-range artillery and mortars repressed the main offensive, slowing it effectively.
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The Ardennes Offensive was a major German offensive launched towards the end of World War II through the forested Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. This German offensive was officially named the Ardennes-Alsace campaign by the U.S. Army,but it is known to the general public simply as the Battle of the Bulge. The “bulge” was the initial incursion the Germans put into the Allies’ line of advance, as seen in maps presented in contemporary newspapers. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Battle of the Dukla Pass was the scene of bitterly contested battle for the Dukla Pass (borderland between Poland and Slovakia) on the Eastern Front of World War II between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union in September-October 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The battle of the Falaise Pocket, fought during the Second World War from 12–21 August 1944, was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. Taking its name from the area around the town of Falaise within which the German Seventh and Fifth Panzer Armies became encircled by the advancing Western Allies, the battle is also referred to as the Falaise Gap after the corridor which the Germans sought to maintain to allow their escape. The battle resulted in the destruction of the bulk of Germany's forces west of the River Seine, and opened the way to Paris and the German border. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of the Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket, also known as Hube's Pocket, was a Wehrmacht attempt on the Eastern Front of World War II to evade encirclement by the Red Army. During the Proskurov-Chernovtsy Offensive Operation (4 March 1944 - 17 April 1944) and the Uman-Botosani Offensive Operation (5 March 1944 - 17 April 1944) the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts encircled Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube's 1st Panzer Army north of the Dniestr river. The Panzer Army's personnel was largely able to escape the encirclement in April. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of the Scheldt was a series of military operations of the First Canadian Army, led by Lieutenant General Guy Simonds. The battle took place in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II from October 2, 1944 to November 8, 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Battle of the Seelow Heights was a part of the Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April - 2 May, 1945); one of the last assaults on large entrenched defensive positions of World War II. It was fought over three days, from 16 to 19 April, 1945. Close to one million Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front (including 78,556 soldiers of the 1st Polish Army), commanded by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, attacked the position known as "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 91,000 German soldiers of the Ninth Army, commanded by General Theodor Busse, as part of Army Group Vistula. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Belostock Offensive was part of the third and final phase of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Bobruysk Offensive was part of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Located in Alsace in eastern France, the Colmar Pocket was the site of a three-week operation during the Second World War, between 20 January and 9 February, 1945, where the French First Army and the U.S. XXI Corps overwhelmed German Nineteenth Army resistance in bitter, extremely cold winter fighting over terrain that offered practically no cover for attacking forces. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Overlord was the code name for the invasion of western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation began on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy Landings (commonly known as D-Day) when an airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than 3 million troops had landed by the end of August. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The East Pomeranian Strategic Offensive operation was an offensive by the Red Army in its fight against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). It took place in Pomerania and West Prussia, and officially lasted from 24 February 1945 to 4 April 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The East Prussian Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Red Army against the German Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (World War II). It lasted from 13 January 1945 to 25 April 1945, though some German units did not surrender until 9 May. The Battle of Königsberg was a major part of the offensive, which ended with a total victory for the Red Army. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Kesternich is a small village just inside the German border from Belgium. It was the site of two major battles during World War II. These battles are tied to the Siegfried Line Campaign, Battle of the Huertgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, and Roer Dam Assault at the outset of Operation Lumberjack. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The First Battle of Târgu Frumos was part of the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive of World War II fought between Axis powers of World War II commanded by Otto Wöhler and Soviet forces led by Ivan Konev. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Gold Beach was the code name for one of the central D-Day landing beaches that Allied forces used to invade German-occupied France on June 6, 1944, during World War II. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Gumbinnen Operation was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front late in 1944, in which forces of the 3rd Belorussian Front attempted to penetrate the borders of East Prussia. The offensive failed, due to strong resistance by the Wehrmacht. As a result it is largely known through German accounts of the defence and because of the atrocities that were alleged to have been committed by troops of the 11th Guards Army, the so-called Nemmersdorf massacre. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Heiligenbeil Pocket or Heiligenbeil Cauldron was the site of a major encirclement battle on the Eastern Front during the closing weeks of World War II, in which the Wehrmacht's 4th Army was almost entirely destroyed during the Soviet Braunsberg Offensive Operation. The Kessel or pocket was located near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia in eastern Germany, and the battle, part of a broader Soviet offensive into the region of East Prussia, lasted from 26 January 1945 until 29 March 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Jassy-Kishinev Operation is named after the two major cities (Ia?i and Chi?in?u) that define its staging area, was a Soviet offensive against Axis forces, which took place in Eastern Romania during 20-29 August 1944. The 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts of the Red Army engaged Army Group South Ukraine, which consisted of combined German and Romanian formations, in an operation to reclaim the Moldavian SSR and destroy the Axis forces in the region, opening a way into Romania and the Balkans.
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Juno Beach was one of the five main landing sites of the Allied invasion of the coast of Normandy on D-Day during World War II. It was situated between Sword Beach and Gold Beach. It is also known as the Canadian beach, as it was assigned to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. Despite being assigned to the Canadians, significant British forces were also present at Juno Beach. The naval component of the invasion force was known as Force J. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Kaunas Offensive was part of the third phase of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Anger (sometimes known as Operation Quick Anger), was a military operation to seize the city of Arnhem in April 1945. It is occasionally referred to as the Second Battle of Arnhem or the Liberation of Arnhem. The operation was part of the Canadian First Army’s liberation of the Netherlands and was led by the British 49th (West Riding) Division, supported by armour of the Canadian 11 Armoured Ontario Regiment, Royal Air Force air strikes and boats of the Royal Navy. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Lower Silesian Offensive was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1945, involving forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal Ivan Konev. It cleared German troops from much of Lower Silesia and besieged a large German force in the provincial capital, Breslau. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Lublin–Brest Offensive (18 July – 2 August 1944) was a part of the Operation Bagration strategic offensive by Soviet forces to clear Germans from central?eastern Poland. The offensive was executed by the left (southern) wing of the 1st Belorussian Front and took place during July 1944; it was opposed by the German Army Group South Ukraine and Army Group Centre. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive or the L'vov-Sandomierz Strategic Offensive Operation was a major Red Army operation to force the German troops from Ukraine and Eastern Poland. Launched in mid July 1944, in just under one month of fighting, the Red Army achieved their objectives. (Source: Wikipedia)

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In twelve days, 22 June - 4 July 1944, the German Army Group Centre lost 25 divisions and 300,000 men. In the few subsequent weeks the Germans lost another 100,000 men. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Mogilev Offensive was part of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Moonsund Landing Operation, also known as the Moonzund landing operation, was an amphibious operation and offensive by the Red Army during World War II, taking place in late 1944. It was part of the Baltic Offensive, and was designed to clear German forces of Army Group North from the islands in East Baltic Sea, the Moonsund archipelago. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Nagykanizsa-Kermend Offensive carried out between 26 March and 15 April 1945 was part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front's Vienna Offensive during World War II against the Army Group South (including Hungarian and Croatian) forces defending the Kisbajom-Nagykorpád-Nagyatád-Heresznye defensive line north of the Drava river and west of Lake Balaton. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the main landing points of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6 1944, during World War II. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Astonia was a battle fought during the Siegfried Line Campaign of World War II from 10 September 1944 to 12 September 1944. The Allied objective of the operation was the capture of the German-held port of Le Havre. The attack on a fort described by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as "one of the strongest fortresses of the Atlantic Wall" was a combined attack with elements of both the Canadian and British armed forces and participation from naval and aviation units, and has been described as 'a model of combined operations', with the fort falling within three days of the first assault. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Atlantic was a Canadian offensive during the Battle of Normandy; launched in conjunction with Operation Goodwood, from July 18–20, 1944. Although initially successful, with gains made on the flanks of the Orne River near Saint-André-sur-Orne, an attack by the 4th & 6th Canadian Infantry Brigades against strongly defended positions on Verrières Ridge resulted in heavy casualties and limited strategic gain. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Bagration was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation during World War II, which cleared German forces from the Belorussian SSR and eastern Poland between 22 June 1944 and 19 August 1944. This action resulted in the almost complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre and three of its component armies: Fourth Army, Third Panzer Army and Ninth Army.  By the end of the operation most of the western Soviet Union had been liberated and the Red Army had achieved footholds in Romania and Poland.
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Operation Bluecoat was an attack by the British Second Army at the Battle of Normandy during World War II, from 30 July 1944 to 7 August 1944. The geographical objectives of the attack were to secure the key road junction of Vire and the high ground of Mont Pinçon. Strategically, the attack was made to support the American exploitation of their breakout on the western flank of the Normandy beachhead. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Charnwood was a Second World War Anglo-Canadian offensive that took place from 8–9 July 1944, during the Battle of Normandy. The operation was intended to capture the German-occupied city of Caen, which was a major Allied objective during the opening stages of Operation Overlord. It was also hoped that the attack would pre-empt the transfer of German armoured units from the Anglo-Canadian sector to the lightly-screened American sector, where the eventual Allied breakout was to be engineered. The British and Canadians advanced on a broad front and by the evening of the second day had taken the northern half of Caen, up to the Orne and Odon rivers. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Cobra was General Omar Bradley's intention to take advantage of the German preoccupation with British and Canadian activity around the town of Caen, and punch through the German defenses. After a slow start the offensive gathered momentum, and German resistance collapsed as scattered remnants of broken units fought to escape to the Seine. Lacking the resources to cope with the situation, the German response was ineffectual, and the entire Normandy front soon collapsed. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Doppelkopf and the following Operation Cäsar were German counter-offensives on the Eastern Front late in 1944 in the aftermath of the major Soviet advance in Operation Bagration. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France, on August 15, 1944, as part of World War II. The invasion took place between Toulon and Cannes. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Epsom, also known as the First Battle of the Odon, was a Second World War British offensive that took place between 26 and 30 June 1944, during the Battle of Normandy. The offensive was intended to outflank and seize the German-occupied city of Caen, a major Allied objective in the early stages of the invasion of northwest Europe. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Goodwood was an attack launched on 18 July 1944, during the Second World War, by the British army to the east of the city of Caen. British VIII Corps led the attack with three armoured divisions, supported by British I Corps on the eastern flank and the Canadian II Corps on the western flank, who were launching their own attack codenamed Operation Atlantic, to capture the remainder of Caen. At least one historian has called the operation the largest tank battle that the British Army has ever fought. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the Allied attack by Fifth United States Army and British 8th Army into the Lombardy Plain which started on April 6, 1945 and ended on May 2 with the surrender of German forces in Italy. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Hannibal was a German military operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor from mid-January to May, 1945 as the Red Army advanced during the East Prussian and East Pomeranian Offensives and subsidiary operations. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Jupiter was an attack launched by the British Second Army's VIII Corps on 10 July. The objective of the attack was to capture the villages of Baron-sur-Odon, Fontaine-Étoupefour, Chateau de Fontaine and recapture Hill 112. Following the capture of these objectives the Corps would then capture Éterville and the village of Maltot and the ground up to the River Orne. Tanks from the 4th Armoured Brigade, supported by infantry, would then advance through the captured ground and secure several further villages to the west of the River Orne. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Lumberjack was a military operation conducted in the last stages of the war in Europe during World War II. It was launched by the First United States Army in March 1945 to capture strategic cities in Germany such as Cologne, and to give the Allies a foothold along the Rhine River. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Lüttich was a codename given to a German counterattack during the Battle of Normandy, which took place around the American positions near Mortain from 7 August to 13 August, 1944.  The offensive is also referred to in American and British histories of the Battle of Normandy simply as the Mortain counter-offensive. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in World War II. It was the largest airborne operation of all time. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Martlet (also known as Operation Dauntless) was the name given to the diversionary operation undertaken on 25 June 1944 by the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division of XXX Corps to support Operation Epsom, the assault by the British VIII Corps into the Odon Valley. The Division's role was to provide flank security for the advancing VIII Corps and to ward off any counter-attacks. It was its first combat operation of the war. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation North Wind (Unternehmen Nordwind) was the last major German offensive of the Second World War on the Western Front. It began on 1 January 1945 in Alsace and Lorraine in north-eastern France, and it ended on 25 January. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Perch was the second attempt to capture Caen after the direct attack from Sword Beach on 6 June failed. According to its pre-D-Day design, Operation Perch was intended to create the threat of a British breakout to the southeast of Caen.[15] The operation was assigned to XXX Corps; the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division was tasked with capturing Bayeux and the road to Tilly-sur-Seulles. The 7th Armoured Division would then spearhead the advance to Mont Pinçon. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Commencing on the night of 23 March 1945 during World War II, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the Rhine river at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River by the British Second Army, under Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey (Operations Turnscrew, Widgeon, and Torchlight), and the U.S. Ninth Army (Operation Flashlight), under Lieutenant General William Simpson. XVIII U.S. Airborne Corps, consisting of British 6th Airborne Division and US 17th Airborne Division, conducted Operation Varsity, parachute landings on the east bank in support of the operation. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Solstice, also known as Unternehmen Husarenritt or the 'Stargard tank battle', was a German armoured offensive operation on the Eastern Front, one of the last such operations. Originally planned as a major offensive, it was eventually executed as a more limited attack. It was repulsed by the Red Army, but helped to convince the Soviet High Command to postpone the planned attack on Berlin. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Spring was an offensive operation conducted by II Canadian Corps during the Normandy campaign. The plan was intended to create pressure on the German forces operating on the British and Canadian front simultaneously to American offensive operations in their sector known as Operation Cobra, an attempt to break out from the Normandy lodgement. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Spring Awakening (Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) (6 March 1945 – 16 March 1945) was the last major German offensive launched during World War II. The offensive was launched in Hungary on the Eastern Front. This offensive was also known in German as the Plattensee Offensive, in Russian as the Balaton Defensive Operation (6 March 1945 - 15 March 1945), and in English as the Lake Balaton Offensive.(Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Totalize was an offensive launched by Allied troops of the First Canadian Army during the later stages of the Operation Overlord. The intention was to break through the German defenses south of Caen on the eastern flank of the Allied positions in Normandy and exploit success by driving south to capture the high ground north of the city of Falaise. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Tractable was the final Canadian–Polish offensive to take place during the Battle of Normandy. Its aim was to capture the strategically important town of Falaise and subsequently the towns of Trun and Chambois. Despite a slow start to the offensive that was marked by limited gains north of Falaise, innovative tactics by Stanis?aw Maczek's Polish 1st Armoured Division during the drive for Chambois allowed for the Falaise gap to be partially closed by August 19, 1944, trapping close to 300,000 German soldiers in the Falaise Pocket. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Veritable was a Second World War pincer movement conducted by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's 21st Army Group to clear and occupy the land between the Rhine and Maas rivers. It took place between 8 February and 11 March 1945. It was a part of General Dwight Eisenhower's "broad front" strategy to occupy the west bank of the Rhine before attempting any crossing. Veritable was originally called Valediction and had been planned for execution in early January, 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Wellhit was the World War II operation by the 3rd Canadian Division (Canadian 1st Army) to take the fortified port of Boulogne in northern France. At first, the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade had hoped to take Boulogne as part of its advance up the coast. The defences, however, brought them to a halt five miles from the city. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Operation Windsor was a Canadian offensive launched as part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. Taking place between 4–5 July 1944, the attack was undertaken by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division in an attempt to capture the Norman town of Carpiquet—as well as the adjacent airfield—from German forces. The attack was originally intended to take place during the later stages of Operation Epsom, as a method of protecting the eastern flank of the main assault. It was postponed and launched the following week. (Source: Wikipedia)

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This offensive covered the operations of 2nd Belorussian Front from 6 August to 14 August, after their completion of the Belostock Offensive, with the objective of the fortified area at Osowiec on one of the tributaries of the Narew River. The very large fortress complex there secured the approaches to East Prussia through the region's marshes. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Pointe du Hoc is a clifftop location on the coast of Normandy in northern France. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Omaha Beach, and stands on 100 ft (30 m) tall cliffs overlooking the sea. It was a point of attack by the United States Army Ranger Assault Group during Operation Overlord in World War II. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Polotsk Offensive had the dual objective of taking Polotsk itself, and of screening the northern flank of the main Minsk Offensive against a possible German counter-offensive from Army Group North.
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The Prague Offensive was the last major Soviet operation of World War II in Europe. The offensive, and the battle for Prague, was fought on the Eastern Front from 6 May to 11 May 1945. This battle for the city is particularly noteworthy in that it ended after the Third Reich capitulated on 8 May 1945. This battle is also noteworthy in that it was fought concurrently with the Prague Uprising. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Riga Offensive was part of the larger Baltic Offensive on the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place late in 1944, and drove German forces from the city of Riga. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Ruhr Pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in late March and early April 1945, near the end of World War II, in the Ruhr Area of Germany. It was, for all intents and purposes, the final dagger in Nazi Germany's war effort, as more than 300,000 troops were taken prisoner. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Kesternich is a small village just inside the German border from Belgium. It was the site of two major battles during World War II. These battles are tied to the Siegfried Line Campaign, Battle of the Huertgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, and Roer Dam Assault at the outset of Operation Lumberjack. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Second Battle of Târgu Frumos, part of the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, was a military engagement primarily between the Wehrmacht and Red Army forces in May 1944, near Ia?i, Romania.
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The Second Battle of the Odon was a series of operations fought by the British Army in mid July 1944 against the German Army as part of the Battle of Normandy. The two operations launched, Greenline and Pomegranate, were designed to draw German attention away from the upcoming assault, out of the Orne bridgehead, codenamed Goodwood. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Shyaulyay Offensive was an operation of the Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front, commanded by General Hovhannes Bagramyan, conducted from July 5 to August 29, 1944 during the Second World War. It was part of the third phase of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation (also known as Operation Bagration), and drove German troops from much of Lithuania, with the main tactical objective of the city of Šiauliai. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Siege of Bastogne was an engagement between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp. In order to reach it before the Allies could regroup and bring their superior air power to bear, German mechanized forces had to seize the roadways through eastern Belgium. Because all seven main roads in the Ardennes mountain range converged on the small town of Bastogne, control of its crossroads was vital to the German attack. The siege lasted from December 20 to December 27 when the besieged American forces were relieved by elements of General Patton's Third Army. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Siege of Budapest was a siege of the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, fought towards the end of World War II in Europe, during the Soviet Budapest Offensive. The siege started when Budapest, defended by Hungarian and German troops, was first encircled on 29 December 1944 by the Red Army and the Romanian Army. The siege ended when the city was unconditionally surrendered on 13 February 1945. The Soviet forces besieging the city were part of Rodion Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian Front. Arrayed against the Soviets was a collection of German Army (Wehrmacht Heer), Waffen-SS, and Hungarian Army (Honvédség) forces. The Siege of Budapest was one of the bloodiest sieges of World War II. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Sword Beach was the codename of one of the five main landing beaches in Operation Neptune, which was the initial assault phase of Operation Overlord (the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944). Stretching 8 km from Ouistreham to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer it was the farthest east of the landing points and around 15 km from Caen. The initial landings were achieved with low casualties, but the British forces ran into heavily defended areas behind the beachhead. The British landings were the only Allied sectors that faced attack by German Panzer Divisions on 6 June 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Tallinn Offensive was the Soviet strategic offensive operation corresponding to the German abandonment of mainland Estonia codenamed Operation "Aster" in the Eastern Front (World War II) in 17–26 September 1944. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Tartu Offensive operation was the campaign fought over South Estonia in 1944. The Soviet tactical aim was to defeat the German 18th Army, capture the city of Tartu. From then on the Soviet command planned to reach the coast of the Bay of Riga and trap the army detachment "Narwa" in Estonia.  (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Crimean Offensive (8 April 1944 - 12 May 1944) – known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea was a series of offensives by the Red Army in the effort to liberate Crimea from the German Wehrmacht occupation. The Red Army's 4th Ukrainian Front engaged German 17. Armee of Army Group South, which consisted of German and Romanian formations, in an operation to liberate the Crimean peninsula. The result of the battle was complete victory for the Red Army, and a botched evacuation effort across the Black Sea, leading to significant German and Romanian losses. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Uman–Boto?ani Offensive was a part of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive , carried out by the Red Army in western Ukrainian SSR against the German Army Group South. The operation was successful, splitting the opposing Army Group in two and allowing the Soviet army to advance to the Dniester and Prut rivers in eastern Romania. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Upper Silesian Offensive was a Soviet strategically significant offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II in 1945, involving forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal Ivan Konev. It forced German troops to retreat from much of Upper Silesia. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Utah Beach was the codename for the right flank or westernmost of the Allied landing beaches during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, as part of Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944. Utah was added to the invasion plan toward the end of the planning stages, when more landing craft became available. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Victory in Europe Day was on 8 May 1945, the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his replacement, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The act of military surrender was signed on May 7 in Reims, France, and May 8 in Berlin, Germany. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Vienna Offensive was launched by the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front in order to capture Vienna, Austria. The offensive lasted from April 2 to April 13, 1945. The city of Vienna was surrounded and under siege for most of the offensive. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Vilnius Offensive occurred as part of the third phase of Operation Bagration, the great summer offensive by the Red Army against the Wehrmacht in June and July, 1944. The Vilnius Offensive lasted from the 5th to the 13th of July, 1944, and ended with a Soviet victory. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Vistula-Oder Offensive was a successful Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European Theatre of World War II; it took place between 12 January, 1945 and 2 February, 1945. The offensive took Soviet forces from their start lines on the Vistula river in Poland to the Oder river deep in Germany, about seventy kilometers from the capital Berlin. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Vitebsk-Orsha Offensive was part of the Belorussian Strategic Offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration. (Source: Wikipedia)

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During World War II, in the Continuation War, the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive was a strategic offensive by the Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts. The operation ended in stalemate. The Soviets captured most of East Karelia and Vyborg (Viipuri), and were also successful in drawing further German forces away from Army Group Centre and weakened the German position in Belorussia before the launch of Operation Bagration. However they did not achieve the objective of Kymi River and the destruction of the Finnish army. This was the largest operation in scope and scale ever fought in the Nordic countries. (Source: Wikipedia)

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After crossing the Rhine the Western Allies fanned out overrunning all of western Germany from the Baltic in the north to Austria in the south before the Germans surrendered on May 7 1945. This is known as the "Central Europe Campaign" in United States military histories. (Source: Wikipedia)

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The Zemland Offensive was a Soviet offensive on the Eastern Front in the final stages of World War II. It took place in Sambia. (Source: Wikipedia)

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